The following is an installment of Trump-Vance team accomplishments (each article is linked for further info):
1. An EV Tax is Only Fair—And the Left Has Gone Wild with Objection
Senator Chuck Schumer and the communists/globalists are freaking out over a proposed $200 electric car tax. Likely, the tax-and-spend Leftists disagree with the new proposed tax for the sole reason it was not their idea.
Thoughts that went into consideration of the EV tax:
First, road repairs are funded through gas taxes and a big selling point for EVs is that they avoid gas taxes. The [Left’s] solution to this was a creepy plan to track every car’s mileage. A flat car registration tax on EVs is a fairer and much less Orwellian solution that doesn’t involve detailed government surveillance.
Second, EVs were incredibly subsidized at the expense of actual car owners through redistributionist mechanisms such as carbon taxes. Car owners in places like California suffered to subsidize EVs.
This proposed tax is only right—some of the money should be paid back.
Kudos to the Trump-Vance team for coming up with this idea.
2. A Double Win: Trump Sends Back 4,000 Foreign Criminals Who Were Here on Student Visas And the Left Suffers a Pathetic Meltdown
The Trump administration revoked the visas of 4,000 foreign students, mostly from Asia and the Middle East. The New York Post reported most of those “have committed crimes in the US including arson, assault and robbery.”
From the State Department:
They came and they were breaking the law with no consequences. We set up a special action team to handle this.
They expelled only foreign students who had committed serious crimes:
There were cases like where it was not a serious thing, like littering, or somebody had charges that were dropped, where we didn’t revoke those. Because it should be a serious matter.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently explained the Trump administration’s reasoning with unarguable clarity:
No one is entitled to a student visa to the enter the United States. No one. It’s not a constitutional right. It’s not a law. Every day, consular officers on the ground in face-to-face interviews are denying people visas for all kinds of reasons – because we think you’re going to overstay, because we think your family member is a member of a drug ring, whatever it may be. We deny visas every day all over the world. No one is entitled to a visa. Let’s start with that, because I hear some of this reporting out there like if somehow we – you’re allowed to have a visa unless we can come up with a reason why you shouldn’t have one. That’s not true. The burden of proof is the other way.
Trump is willing doing the necessary hard work to protect Americans from the beneficiaries of the left’s welcoming attitude.
Cosseted members of the political and media elites could watch crime skyrocket while sipping Chardonnay in their gated communities, but ordinary folk did not have that luxury.
President Trump is the champion of We the People.
3. Trump Fired Doug Emhoff from Holocaust Memorial Council
This action reflects Trump’s extensive agenda to remove Regime appointees from governmental roles.
Breitbart reported:
The move follows a similar precedent set by [The Obiden Regime].
Emhoff had served in the council, focusing efforts on combating anti-Semitism. However, the rapid rise of anti-Semitic incidents, particularly after the Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel on October 7, 2023, underscores the gravity of the council’s work—or lack thereof
President Trump’s administration, within its rights, proceeded with these removals under the Supreme Court-supported authority derived from Regime actions.
4. Lutnick to Newsmax: ‘Let Greatest Dealmaker Make His Deals’
The Commerce Secretary told Newsmax people need to let the president work.
Howard Lutnick stated:
The best line I can say is let the greatest dealmaker make his deals.
When you don’t bet on Donald Trump, you’re making a mistake.
All the criticism aimed at Trump for temporary market volatility is going to deliver huge payoffs in the long term, Lutnick told host Rob Schmitt in a nearly 25-minute, wide-ranging interview.
Not only will trade deals worked by Lutnick “with the rest of the world” set the table for the “big dog,” “gorilla” trade correction rebalancing with China, but Trump’s “one big, beautiful” budget deal will repatriate American industry, too, with tax cuts for working-class Americans and incentives for businesses.
“We need to rebuild the industrial base of America, but not the old one, the new one,” Lutnick noted, saying Trump wants to bring modern manufacturing back to America, not “cheap, basic stuff we can still rely on overseas trade to give us on the cheap.”
Lutnick said:
Tariffs are just the first prong of leveraging the reworking of the global trade order.
Further:
[T]ax and regulatory reforms are coming.
Lutnick implored American business leaders:
You come in and you come in now! And the government of the United States is going to make it easier for you to build it.
We’re going to get the regulations down. We’re going to get the tax rate down. We’re going to get your corporate tax down.
Further:
We’re going to get everything we can to say, ‘Come, build in America, right? And employ our great Americans, and let’s change the industrial foundation of America.’
In Trump we shall trust, according to Lutnick.
He said:
Let the guy build America back and trust him.
Further:
And Donald Trump’s going to do it and he’s on it. And he’s the first one that actually called it out.
And:
American excellence and treasure has been exported for far too long.
5. Trump Signs Major Civil Rights Executive Order: “Disparate Impact” Liability
“Disparate Impact” liability all but required individuals and businesses to consider race and engage in racial balancing to avoid potentially crippling legal liability.
President Trump spoke with clarity when ending this divisive and illegal left-wing legal principle:
It is the policy of the United States to eliminate the use of disparate-impact liability in all contexts to the maximum degree possible to avoid violating the Constitution, Federal civil rights laws, and basic American ideals.
Under disparate impact, intent does not matter. Outcome does. For example, if one racial group scores 20% lower than another on a hiring test, the burden falls on the employer to justify the test’s “business necessity.” Note: Liberals cannot admit merit-based standards might produce unequal outcomes.
Left-wing activists have used this doctrine to radically reshape American employment markets. The disparate impact doctrine allowed the federal government to accuse employers of racism not for intentional discrimination, rather for hiring practices that produce unequal racial outcomes—even if the practices are neutral and job-related.
Trump’s move to finally put disparate impact enforcement under the microscope is long overdue. His executive order does not only tweak the rule—it blows a hole in the legal rationale used by the EEOC and left-wing activist groups to shake down businesses and block merit-based standards. And the fact that legacy media outlets are pretending it did not happen only confirms what is already known: They cannot defend the far-left legal theory—so they are hiding the story.
The New York Times provided only a single vague sentence:
Another [Trump EO] restricts the use of the so-called disparate impact rule, which civil rights groups have long said is an important tool for showing discrimination against minorities.
With this EO, Trump is taking a bold step to restore fairness to businesses, employers, and prospective employees.
